Senior Data Infrastructure Engineer
Horizon3 AI3 months ago
Remote, United StatesSenior
Base Salary
$202k - $238k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain business-critical data ingestion pipelines, including AWS Glue and Spark jobs feeding the warehouse and Tableau.
- Build and operate the data warehouse, orchestration, and BI/reporting platform across multiple regions.
- Evaluate and shape warehouse and lakehouse strategy, including Databricks.
- Define event-driven contracts and make architecture decisions involving batch versus streaming, CDC, reprocessing, multi-tenancy, and multi-region deployment.
- Design and evolve warehouse schemas and data models.
- Build observability into data pipelines and platform components.
- Coordinate work across producer and consumer teams and own outcomes end to end.
Requirements
- Strong software engineering skills, including clean, correct, maintainable code and solid data-structure and problem-solving fundamentals.
- Deep understanding of distributed systems and data architecture, including pipeline and platform design, batch and streaming, CDC, event contracts, multi-tenant and multi-region trade-offs, reprocessing, and observability.
- Fluent SQL and strong data-modeling skills, including warehouse schema design.
- Experience owning production data infrastructure end to end.
- 7+ years of professional experience in data engineering, infrastructure engineering, or backend software engineering.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Experience with the AWS data stack, including Glue and Spark.
- Experience with cloud data warehouses or lakehouse platforms such as Amazon Redshift or Databricks.
- Experience with Tableau or a comparable BI platform.
- Experience with SQL and Python.
- Experience with workflow orchestration tools such as Apache Airflow or Dagster.
Benefits
- Remote and hybrid work models are available depending on the role and location, with some Chicago-based roles requiring regular in-office presence.
- Full-time roles are eligible for an equity package in the form of stock options.
- Health, vision, and dental insurance are provided for employees and their families.
- Flexible vacation policy and generous parental leave.
- Inclusive, collaborative culture with career development opportunities.
Tech Stack
Categories
Data Engineering
About Horizon3 AI
Horizon3 AI builds NodeZero, a proactive security platform that autonomously performs penetration testing and validates attack paths across on‑prem, cloud, and hybrid environments. The company sells its software by subscription to security and IT teams at enterprises and government agencies, helping prioritize and verify fixes. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in San Francisco, it is privately held and serves customers across regulated industries and the public sector.